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Pacific Division Previews
Over the last month, I wrote previews for the Pacific Division over at Puck Prospectus. The order of finish comes from Tom Awad's VUKOTA projection system, which is further based on Tom's GVT st...
How good is John Tavares?
[Originally appeared in the Nov. 16, 2008 edition of 'The Committed Indian', the unofficial Chicago Black Hawks program...]Can you imagine baseball fans across the country getting excited about a 16-y...
Russian KHL League Equivalency to date
The 2008-09 KHL season is about 14 games in, and we can take our first stab at producing a league equivalency. There are 23 skaters in the KHL who played at least 20 games in the NHL last year. Their ...
Canadian Junior A NCAA/Major Junior Equivalencies
I now have five-to-seven years of player data for Canadian Junior A leagues, so it's now possible to generate equivalencies for each league. I ran the data for British Columbia (BCHL), Alberta (AJHL),...
Leafs in the Playoffs? Nah...
"Can Leafs overcome the odds? Just when it seemed that any chance of reaching the post-season was lost, hope has been rekindled..."Toronto Star, March 3rd, 2008 [link here]Hope certainly springs etern...
Kyle Okposo and Projecting the NCAA to the NHL
Kyle Okposo made a few headlines this week: after the World Junior Championships are over, he's quitting the University of Minnesota and joining the New York Islanders. He was drafted 7th overall in 2...
Starting in the NHL as a teenager does mean success
"Getting to the big time early doesn't necessarily mean you've made it big. Or to stay." - Damien Cox, ESPN.com, 12/12/07 in Starting in NHL as a teenager doesn't mean instant success.Sometimes you ru...
Lots of hits on USHL Article
The short column I wrote the level of play in the USHL has generated a lot of interest in the last couple of days.Marc Foster's junior hockey blog made reference to it:Junior Hockey BlogAnd the USHL P...
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